Akıncı: “Political parties in the Parliament can participate in Geneva meeting”
9 December, 2016Burcu: “The reconvened talks will lead to the Cyprus Conference with the participation of the three guarantor countries”
13 December, 2016Since its excavation project started in 2006, the Missing Persons Committee has now found a total of 1192 of 2001 missing persons. The Committee aims to determine the identities of missing persons who were lost due to the conflicts in Cyprus between 1963-1964 and in 1974, and to return them to their families. .
The Missing Persons Committee has been working across the island for 10 years to ease the missing persons’ families’ distress.
The teams of the committee have undertaken 1119 excavations to find 2001 missing persons – 1508 Greek Cypriots and 493 Turkish Cypriots. They have currently found the remains of 1192 missing persons. The identities of 553 Greek Cypriots and 184 Turkish Cypriots, a total of 737 missing persons, have been determined and returned to their families.